The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

Pema Chödron

from the book When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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Further quotes from the book When Things Fall Apart:

• Don’t Set Out to Save the World
• Fully alive
• No fresh air
• Becoming unstuck
• Abandoning hope
• Drive all blames into oneself
• What is in front of us right in the moment
• It’s just like that
• How are you
• Just being here again and again and again
• Cultivating Peace
• Disappointment
• Undoing of old ways of seeing
• Moving closer to the truth
• The perfect teacher
• Opening our hearts and minds beyond limit
• Awakening is essential
• Being with us
• The Possibility of Egolessness